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| Kamala Harris |
Running against Kamala Harris is going to be a PR nightmare for Donald Trump, who won’t be able to resort to his standard practice of smearing his political opponents with lies and distortions, while lobbing sexist or racist attacks at them.
Harris will swat away Trump’s tired old rants, positioning herself as the presidential candidate who is confident of America’s future.
That’s a sharp contrast from Trump's dark vision for the country’s future. That vision features the establishment of a network of gulags for undocumented immigrants in the US, and an era of retribution aimed at the media and his perceived enemies.
At his July 24 rally at Charlotte’s Bojangles Coliseum, Trump sounded crazier than ever. According to Trump, Harris “wants abortions in the eighth and ninth month of pregnancy, that’s fine with her, right up until birth, and even after birth—the execution of a baby.” Post-birth murder is illegal in every state. Harris does want to reinstate Roe v. Wade.
Trump alleged that Harris, a fan of cheeseburgers, wants to ban red meat. He also said Harris is totally against the Jewish people, though her husband of 10 years is a Jew.
Trump’s old attack game is getting very old. He called Harris “dumb as a rock.” Saying that of a woman who was California AG, Senator and US VP is absolutely nuts. He deliberately mispronounces Harris' first name, which is intended to somehow demean her but it is just a childish gesture.
The Wall Street Journal editorial page has warned Trump to stop the nonsense.
The former president and his GOP allies are “grasping for attack lines that aren’t likely to work or are counterproductive," according to the WSJ. Diminishing Harris after she’s been VP for four years “will alienate women and the minority voters the GOP is trying to attract.”
Trump will have to make a case on policy, rather than personal insults, and that isn’t his strength, editorialized the WSJ in the understatement of the year.
The former president is yesterday's news. America yearns for a better tomorrow.
Hats off to Thomas Massie, Kentucky’s right-wing Congressman, for being the only Republican to boycott Israel prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Capitol Hill pep rally. He joined more than 80 Democrats who refused to enable Netanyahu’s grand-standing.
Massie posted on the X platform: “Today Congress will undertake political theater on behalf of the State Department.
The purpose of having Netanyahu address Congress is to bolster his political standing in Israel and to quell int’l opposition to his war.
I don’t feel like being a prop so I won’t be attending.”
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee quickly criticized Massie for “standing with” progressives such as Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders “against our ally Israel.” Those progressives aren’t anti-Israel. They are against the policies of its government.
Massie responded to AIPAC: “Call me anything you want. I still won’t be attending your war rally.”
The shameless GOP audience gave Bibi 52 standing ovation for his talk that failed to mention anything about the all-but-signed deal to free the hostages, or a ceasefire.
They also broke into the chant of "USA, USA" as if the Israel’s slaughter of nearly 40K Palestinians, the vast majority of whom were civilians, is in the best interest of America.
Bibi also had the nerve to criticize the protesters outside of Capitol Hill, who were expressing their free speech rights by demonstrating against his Gaza slaughter.
He dismissed those American citizens as “useful idiots” of Iran.
The only idiots in DC are House Speaker Mike Johnson and his GOP leadership who provided such a high-profile platform for Israel's premier, who has been snubbing president Biden’s efforts to end the madness in Gaza.
PR people can hone their craft by studying the behavior of pigeons, according to Christina Miranda, principal at Redpoint, a New York travel PR firm.
She is in the midst of waging a war against the birds who have been treating her NYC apartment balcony as a favorite hangout.
"If there’s a pigeon travel guide out there, I’m certain that my balcony is a top listing and location coordinates are given,” she recently blogged.
While battling pigeons, Miranda realized they “have three things in common with great publicists: persistence, resourcefulness and creativity.”
Miranda believes publicists need those three traits to work together to bring newsworthy ideas to life and make them attractive to journalists.
She wouldn’t mind sharing her space with the birds, if they weren’t such prolific poopers.
With more than 30 years of PR experience, Miranda is well-equipped to battle the intruders. “These pigeons picked the wrong balcony to stake their claim,” she wrote. “They’re going down.”
The pigeons don’t stand a chance.
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